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Yeah, sometimes you want to go to Google, enter your name, and discover that nothing has changed. What the heck, not Alex Raymond are after all, is plain to see always the same link. The comic characters are not gossip, I 'Rockstar ("normal" I mean), and still have more pages devoted to them by Mr Rossi, Valentino excluded ...

The first link back to Wikipedia , who discovered a page There is a bit 'of years ago, when I rang the phone. "Tell me a bit, but you've opened that page on wikipedia, right?" I demand my nephew Fred, who discovered it. I fall from the clouds, deny, and then run to read and discover that some pious soul put me and other designers with enough information correct. Yes, I confess that I "adjusted" a few things in his voice, just for the sake of accuracy. As I adjusted a couple of links on the page of the designers books by Jonathan Steele , absent in origin. And my contribution to the Wikipedia end there.

I remember when he discovered the entry dedicated to me, the page was under observation as someone had objected to his presence. Even my nephew intervened on behalf of myself and my comics in general (I've never thanked enough Fred?), And after a year the dispute disappeared. And after 10 lines of this note the author realizes that in fact it was he wanted to talk in the wikipedia post, but one thing leads to, you know.

However, one of the entries in the first page shows a interview that made me and a friend of Rome to his friend Carlo Recagno , now back in 2006, for the online magazine Borderlands . Charles still remembers happily as "The second time m'intervistarono.

Well, for the curious and fetishists comics (there exist), a reading is recommended, although Charles did not reveal any scoop on Martin Mystere.

The tenth item in the Google search for my name, port Lambiek.com . And this is a surprise, given that 1) the database is international designers and immense, and especially 2) somehow managed to find a cartoon appeared only on the Italian fanzine of Startrek!

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Designers are people, "strange" ...

How many times I've read stories drawn from time and realize that Jonathan Steele fired holding the gun with his left? Is coupled with all the times that I noticed at the desk, and being still in time I could cancel without any mercy careless mistake. Well, if sometimes a collector of original pencils felt a cold shiver down my back and went to make sure that the boards would not lose its precious graphite, well, now you know who caused that brief moment of panic.

The blame is always our usual habit - probably derived from the comic book artist Jack Lemmon in "How to Murder Your Wife" - to copy ourselves, at least on certain occasions. Of course, there is no doubt that a good designer needs to know to draw a human figure from head to toe, well-proportioned, with a good balance, in a position consistent with what the story requires, and possibly winning. Hogarth lessons on the human figure once you learn you do not leave, and although sometimes you escape to a pose Tarzan, most of the time helps you get by in difficult situations (to draw, what they understood?).

But sometimes, just sometimes, in some detail is good, useful and highly recommended to copy something. Use it when you're dealing with an object, a plane, a car or a gun. When you have a car you have to draw the right person at the wheel, with his back to the right place, his arms outstretched but not too much, the seat that distance and so on. And if you shoot someone with a gun you have to do them by hand, and if the hand is in the foreground, and you see all the knuckles (two fingers, 5 fingers, always visible from at least 4 shot), and must be the right length, then there must be the arm and shoulder, and a jacket that falls from the shoulder, and you can not use action figure because those are the rotating shoulder, like Grendizer, so to speak, and draw Grendizer firing in a realistic cartoon is not ideal.

So take the gun. Imitation of course. The gun, not the hand. With his left hand, of course, because you have a pencil in his right hand. And you miss it, damn it, we do not think, drawings and then escapes and if you just hope that someone knows that there are people ambidextrous, and it is therefore quite possible that they could be among the actors in a cartoon.

Otherwise, if you are aware of the problem and want to avoid it, then you geniuses. To take a picture. If you have a volunteer you're done, otherwise, if you're Alec Ross (who has many friends willing), then you have to do it alone. You put yourself in laying up the camera, shots, and watch the result. Of course, on digital, we need the result immediately.

Too close. Too far. Too dark. Who cares if you have a long beard and disheveled or six you can glimpse the bald? Much is required of you. How

the title of my post? Strange people? Exactly ...

This goes back a few weeks ago. And I do not know if one day someone will find where is the sticker never looked so good.

Now do not ask me where to find sources of inspiration ...

Small note: I changed the settings to enter comments, can now do so even those not registered to Google. I only ask a favor, Firmat in the message, because you put all the settings as anonymous. Thank you for your courtesy, drive slowly and do not be violent ...

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There once was a fax ...

Collectors with original drawings, pages of script and all the sketches that were used at the time, are stacked to one side, beautiful vertical. Someone with the tag that marked what it contained. Others without, because the content changes depending on how much stuff I had to stow away. Carcare open to something firm. Pull out all those pages, browse for that design in particular ... no, too demanding. So

fallback on the old CD, full of stuff scanned at the time. The moment you begin to convert the digital age, when you see the fax, which you so faithfully served for so long to maintain contact with the drawing-up, soon you would not most had occasion to use it, becoming obsolete, replaced by more efficient digital systems. A new era, in which you first load a CD on your computer and navigate their images with a button that open an old wallet.

And the pictures are running, as if a time machine that goes backward, bringing to an era when the future was uncharted territory, in which you saw not wait to begin exploring. So slowly see drawings you've done so long ago, and you have sent by fax in what is now called the "last century".

As this drawing here. What remains a mystery why it is being scanned and the fax come and not the original. This fax arrived in Bonelli 12 November 1999, the attention of Frederick, who was commissioned to create a few days before. I think I remember that he was satisfied.

One of my creations for Jonathan Steele, among those of which I was more (and still are) happy, here in the form that was sent to colleagues, via fax. For some years I continued to hope that the day um Burago could call Federico Bonelli or someone ... asking if she could make a model car Myriam: the "Cezanne".

Years after the Renault car called "Picasso." Perhaps there had gone too far with the advances the future. Then, much later, the series closed. And some time after the Burago was taken by the Chinese ...

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Another Blog.

Yeah, here's another artist, as if they were already too many, who decided to open a blog, he also opened the great world of networking. Why facebook is basically small, because the idea was spinning on my mind for a while ', and because in the end I got the idea for the head. the minds of human beings is strange, twisted way below, and that of the designers is even harder.

What is a blog to a designer? For example, information of those friends, lovers and the whole world (the cartoonists are notoriously megalomaniacs) on anything that produces and seeding around. "Or tell about your business!" a little voice whispers.

I made my own? What I ate, what I saw at the cinema, which I completed game? Who might be interested to know that I left Lara Croft in the basement of the Louvre, just because I could not find a bloody symbol, or that I have solved only through the Monkey Island II solutions (in the game, but you can?)?

Oh well, I'm working on the form, adding here and there over the next few days which will detail, while the content will work.

It will also release a bit 'of material, perhaps unprecedented, go to know what will happen tomorrow. I think it is useful to begin with something important, that does not clash ever, like a dress that you are always good to which diseases you more than others.

And then, as some dreamer said long ago, the first Enterprise is never forgotten ...

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Journals Online

The world of online magazines is always richer. On the site issu.com you can find, browse and read lots of magazines of various kinds, some of which are also printed and distributed, while others are only available online. Completely free, the most interesting are dedicated to design, fashion and photography. Now that we begin to depopulate as electronic means of reading the touch screen (see the iPad, and so on Kindle), the online magazine starts to take that weight and sometimes quell'autorevolezza which until now was virtually closed to the great public. In fact, many publishers of printed media are starting to think of their magazines as available completely online. If this is so for the newspaper, perhaps it will be for the magazine. Too bad because some of the glossy magazines is beautiful because you can take everywhere and the need to recharge it. But the advantage is the amount of electronics, the choice, the economy and a bit 'of ecology (energy consumption per unit but load the savings in paper, ink, transport ... etc).

And here we all become digital publishers! As blogs have made anyone a writer or columnist, the digital magazine publishing customs clearance. It may be that the quality decreases, as many are afraid of (especially the "holders" of Culture), but to read certain magazines and browse online photo and see the images they publish, it is to breathe a sigh of joyful relief. So much so that, speaking of the press, in Italy one of the few photo magazines that can be called like that is ZOOM. Current and extremely beautiful, not only in content but also in setting graphics. The others often seem a picture made by or for beginners. If it were not for the technical data on various equipment, sometimes one wonders if deep down they are not sponsored by any manufacturer. But however well be editorial pluralism. It will be up to us to choose and discern. Even as online journals and magazines BLUR FOTOBLUR are proof that quality exists without necessarily get behind publishing houses "known" or belong to the printed word. In fact, here you have the opportunity to see the work very interesting, exciting and original. Even trivial at times, but this is not just prerogative of online journals. A shut

This ode to the magazine online quote a recent event: an authoritative title and publisher Einaudi has published as the book of Portuguese writer José Saramago because openly against the current government. Ode

then virtual universe populated by magazines, blogs and writings free of any logic of "market" and power. © 2010 Elena Fantini

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They end holidays and the festivals begin

"Finally" holidays are ending, and with them the unwillingness of the typical hot summers. Just ice cream, watermelon, sunbathing and diving into the sea. We go back in front of the PC, you order among their cards, read novels storing it under an umbrella and you start to program. September is the month of new projects but most of the festival: Festival of the PD, the literature festival, festival of poetry, the grape festival, festival of philosophy, the festival of photography ...! Autumn is always a feast of festivals, events and activities. Perhaps to exorcise the summer is ending? In reality, after having reassured by the weight of winter in summer, autumn seems to me as a beginning, full of good intentions. It is probably a legacy that comes from the school years, when everything starts again in September and the scent of books new made us even me want to study them.

And speaking of festivals certainly be cited Savignano Images an event that is often full of very interesting exhibits (remember above all the wonderful exhibition of Sarah Moon in 2008) and not at all rhetorical. During this event (this word is very Sanremo) is awarded the best portfolio (Portfolio in the square) and this is also a highly important event especially for the high quality of the work awarded. Among the exhibitions this year will be with Martin Parr Made in Italy [on the Rubicon] (projection of photographic work produced by photographer at the fashion industries of the territory of the Rubicon), Roger Ballen with Boarding House, Silvia Camporesi with Down By The Water, by Simon Roberts We Inglese (English identity project), but most of all the one that intrigues me is The Roma Journeys by Joakim Eskildsen where the author together with writer Cia Rinne, he traveled to seven several European countries in order to obtain an overview of the life of the Roma and the conditions they face. If we think of the latest news on France and the controversy over the crackdown imposed by President Nicolas Sarkozy on Roma and Travellers, with evictions of squatter camps and repatriation, this work takes on a surprising. From 10 to 12 September 2010. © 2010 Elena Fantini